Superheroes are supposed to be invincible. They take down the world’s villains, through much pain and turmoil, and they always come out of it in one piece. The truly great pieces of the genre, whether in the original comic book form or through films and TV shows, always come when the writers manage to make us as the audience truly worried that maybe, just maybe, our hero isn’t going to make it out okay after all.

There’s a certain set of expectations that fans have come to expect from Marvel Studios. A fun, lighthearted superhero tale with moments of epic danger and, of course, lots of action. From the very first episode, however, Daredevil breaks all of those expectations.